There Is No Death
Comment: Science has debunked the concept of death. According to science, a person’s life does not end with death. Some scientists say that consciousness persists even after death.
My Response: Where can this be proven, shown, understood, or felt?
Comment: They say the cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, emits waves for about 20 seconds after death.
My Response: So we live for another 20 seconds. Big deal!
Question: Why study the experience of death if all paths ultimately lead to nowhere?
Answer: It is very intriguing. What if I find something that tells me I am immortal? Then I would see my life in a completely different way!
Question: Is there a concept of death in Kabbalah?
Answer: No, in reality, there is no death. There is no time. How can there be death? There is only a transition between states, nothing more.
Question: How does a transition from one state to another occur in spirituality? Is it also cyclical, like life – death – life?
Answer: In spirituality there is no such thing as we see in our world! Living, biological matter has nothing to do with spirituality. It may live or die in our perception, but it is entirely unrelated to the spiritual. We do not sense spiritual matter, and it is not connected to the physical. Does the death or life of the physical body say anything about the spiritual?!
Question: Is there such a concept as a “spiritually dead person”? What does it mean?
Answer: A person is spiritually dead because there is no spirit in them. Spirit refers to the quality of bestowal to others, not the quality of receiving from others.
Our earthly life is about the desire to receive from everything around us, in every form—on the still, vegetative, animal, and human levels.
Spiritual life, on the other hand, is when we do not take from outside, but give from within, when we try to share, help, and radiate outward. This is called spiritual life. Change one life for the other and you will discover what immortality is.
Comment: Physicists say that a part of you will live on for a very long time. And that part is your energy. They say that according to the first law of thermodynamics, the energy that sustains life is preserved and cannot be destroyed. Beautiful, is it not?
My Response: Very beautiful, but it does not exist at all. This is because our world does not exist; it exists only in our imagination. Therefore, everything we perceive as bodies, our lives, birth, development, death, all this is only our imagination, within us, and nothing outside.
Everything we see around us, all this vast, solid existence, is only our imagination.
Question: Then what is a person?
Answer: A person, too, is the same. Within us is a kind of mechanism that we program in a specific way. It spins the images of our world in which we supposedly live. Just as you sleep and see a dream in which you seem to have experienced something, so, too, this life is like a dream.
And then you wake up: “Oh! Was it a dream or life?” No, it was so-called life, which is, in essence, a dream.
That is all there is. Our current life is simply a state from which we have not yet awakened.
Question: Then perhaps people in their quest to uncover the mystery of death are searching for real life?
Answer: That is exactly what they are doing. They just do not know how to find it. They are seeking new adventures within this dream.
Question: What, then, is true life?
Answer: To wake up. And you can only wake up when you start to rise above your egoism. This is what Kabbalah teaches—how to uncover the secret of life, how to wake up and truly live.
Question: What then is the secret of immortality, not of the physical body, but of the spiritual?
Answer: The physical body does not exist either. It exists only in our imagination, just like this entire world. That is why the world is called “Olam” from the word “ne’elam” (hidden), and the word “ha’alama” (concealment), a shadowy state. That is our current condition.
Question: How then can a person pass through these “holograms,” uncover this life, and achieve immortality?
Answer: To do this one must engage in the method of their own resurrection.
When a person begins to see life not in themselves, but in others, themselves in others, this is how they awaken.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 9/22/19
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